Artist Book Launch

Snapshot ✧ Carmela Ben Shitrit Book launch

Carmela Ben Shitrit is an independent artist who has been working in the field for many years. Her first artist’s book, Snapshot, was created under the guidance of artist-printmaker Wanna Schaub. The process began about a year ago, following Carmela’s attempt to process the personal trauma she and her daughter’s family experienced (as residents of Kibbutz Nirim). She started by gathering her thoughts, desires, emotions, and frustrations into a single jar that became a vessel for everything she couldn’t yet contain. From there, she moved into a printmaking process. The book opens with three large, central prints and continues with postcard-size-prints of random images forming a kind of stream of consciousness.

At the book launch event, Carmela and Wanna will speak about their collaborative work, about transforming trauma into creation, and about the craft of printmaking.